MADD Calls for Traffic
Safety Summit

Mothers Against Drunk
Driving (MADD) has called for a
summit of traffic safety leaders to
renew the focus on proven solutions
for addressing impaired driving as
well as other behavioral issues.

The summit would seek to build
support for MADD’s Campaign to
Eliminate Drunk Driving and other
science-based recommendations. In
addition to impaired driving, the summit
would focus on what MADD calls
a practical and realistic national traffic
safety action plan that would move the
nation in the same direction.

According to MADD National President
Jan Withers, “We need to commit
ourselves to working together to
support the strongest laws on all issues—
drunk driving, distraction, belt
use, child seats, teen. This includes
the best enforcement of those laws,
and broad awareness by the driving
public that unsafe behavior will not
be tolerated.” Withers also noted,
“We must take a comprehensive
approach and focus on the countermeasures
that will help use our
safety resources in the most costbeneficial
way. And we must reject
doing the things that feel good, but
do no good.”